Rickie Lee Jones s/d

[koganbot]

OK, I know way less about Rickie Lee Jones than about most any other of the influential singer-songwriters, but lonepilgrim embedded this live track and, as the YouTube guy says, "This shit rocks!"

Rickie Lee Jones and a bunch of half-naked guys:

"Rickie Lee Jones, WHITE GIRL" (Watch on YouTube)

So, tell me more. What do you know about Rickie Lee Jones, what do you like, what do you dislike? In my comment I told Peter "I'd only heard a smattering of Rickie Lee Jones over the years, have no idea of the arc of her career, but this track actually fits right into my expectations, sort of a cross between Patti and Joni..." And then I went into my usual shtick about Joni et al. leading to Stevie and Sheryl and Alanis which in turn leads into the '00s teen-confessional.

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i haven't thought about her for years actually -- there's was a kind of a "smoky nightclub chanteuse" fad in the uk just as i started out writing, and RLJ was off on the hard-to-parse edge of it, bcz unlike all the others she wasn't retro really (or somehow didn't feel it)

my two main taste-mentors then -- ian penman and richard cook -- were both nuts for her: i think i didn't quite get it, where "it" was the sexiness they seemed to be overwhelmed by (which just meant she wasn't my type, then)

[koganbot]

What do you think of this track, and her post-grunge jam-band phase in general (which for all I know this may be the only representative of, but if the album from this time, Ghostyhead, is like this song, I'm on it - though this song isn't on it)?